The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast: New and Selected Stories
John L'Heureux$23.80
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A sweeping posthumous collection wrestles with faith, irony, and the redemptive nature of love.
--Kirkus A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Public Space Books
Published: 12/03/2019
ISBN: 9780998267579
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 13
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 24
--Kirkus A nun crashes her car; an unborn child sings to its mother; a troubled priest is in the market for a London apartment. In The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast, John L'Heureux explores head-on life's biggest questions, and the moments--of joy, doubt, transcendence--that alter the course of life. Compiled as he neared the end of his life, and conceived as the legacy of a life's work, The Heart Is a Full-Wild Beast brims with elegance, humor, and compassion, welcoming both the ordinary and the rapturous. L'Heureux is a writer of astonishing vision--a master of storytelling and the sentence.
Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Public Space Books
Published: 12/03/2019
ISBN: 9780998267579
Pages: 456
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 6.00w x 1.70d
Review Citations: Kirkus Reviews 10/01/2019 pg. 13
Booklist 11/15/2019 pg. 24